Cooking in the Woodstove

[Bubblingbrooks]

Our oven has not worked in some time, but since I do very little baking, and we have a really nice cooker/smoker outside, I have managed fairly well.
Recently we got a meduim sized dutch oven at a garage sale, and after reading about using one of those to cook inside a woodstove, I thought I would give it a test run.

I put one of our home raised CX in the dutch oven, added the lid, and after preparing a place in the hot coals I placed it carefully in the oven.
To make sure the temps stayed up, I added small pieces of firewood to the sides a couple of times.
Here is the tasty finished results!

Finished Chicken

Drippings ready for hot water and rice flour.

 

[Denim Deb]

Looks yummy!

 

[BarredBuff]

 

[justusnak]

Good job!!!

 

[TanksHill]

That looks wonderful.

One trick I have learned cooking in my dutch oven out doors is to add coals to the lid. If it's the dutch oven with the lip it is designed to have coals spread evenly over the top for a "baking" effect. Another thing that help is to give the lid a quarter turn every 15 to 20min.

Good luck!!

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[dacjohns]

Good job BB.

My woodstove is not big enough to get a dutch oven inside but it cooks stovetop style pretty good.

 

[DuppyDo]

Looks great..! Can you tell me about how much the chicken weighed and how long you cooked it...? I've fooled around making cast iron corn bread in my wood burner.I recently acquired a dutch oven and i'd love to try what you did...love the idea of cooking with wood and bake yams that way all the time.thanks..

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I think it was maybe 5 pounds. I have no idea how long it took, as I never kept track!!!!!!!!!
Since I did it inside my woodstove that heats the house, it was a real guessing game.

Since doing the chicken, I have done wine poached Red Salmon in foil packets and a moose roast.
The roast went too long, but it still ate pretty well.

 

[DuppyDo]

Thanks BubblingBrook....that chicken looks sooooo good...!! lol